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Zusatztext This is a very rich book in many respects and provides an approach to the study of the MBh and its individual characters that could profitably be taken up by others. ... this book is very well worth reading and its central thesis about the dissonance created by the disconnect between dharma and duhkha offers new lines of research into both great Sanskrit epics. Informationen zum Autor Before joining the Religion Department at Boston University in 2010, Emily Hudson taught at Harvard University as a lecturer in the history and literature program. Situating herself methodologically at the crossroads of religion and literature, the history of religions, and religious ethics, Hudson's teaching and research interests focus on South Asian literature and literary theory and comparative religious ethics. Klappentext This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata. "The book is a stimulating combination of close attention to textual detail and reflection on the reading process. By bringing literary theory into contact with Mahabharata studies it does welcome wonders for both; it is original and will be influential...The tone is passionate yet restrained; the argument is engaging and direct...The project is clearly an important one both for the author and for the field of Mahabharata studies."--Simon Brodbeck, author of The Mahabharata Patriline: Gender, Culture, and the Royal Hereditary Zusammenfassung This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata Chapter One: The Implicit Literary Theory of the Mahabharata Chapter Two: Dharma and Rupture in the Game of Dice Chapter Three: The Eyesight of Insight: Dhrtarastra and Moral Blindness Chapter Four: Time that Ripens and Rots All Creatures Chapter Five: Heaven's Riddles or the Hell Trick: Theodicy and Narrative Strategies Conclusion: Dharma and Suffering Appendix: Glossary of Characters ...
